Comments on: My Assistant Grader http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/ faults | sins | abuses Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Anndraya http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-75094 Anndraya Sun, 20 May 2007 21:28:58 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-75094 She's not assessing any-tink...she's just enjoying the warmth of the lamplight on her face. Simple Cat Zen. She’s not assessing any-tink…she’s just enjoying the warmth of the lamplight on her face. Simple Cat Zen.

]]> By: vitia » Blog Archive » Term-End Examination http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49262 vitia » Blog Archive » Term-End Examination Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:39:04 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49262 [...] But OK: before the boasting, I was talking about final exams. And here’s what I’m thinking, especially given Bradley’s recent comment: if my institution, bound in tradition as it is, won’t let go of the final exam requirement, and if the writer’s retrospective essay might fly as a substitute for what we’ve got in place now, wouldn’t that be a strong argument as well for moving to wholly electronic portfolios, with the final exam writer’s retrospective serving as a sort of rhetorical cover sheet for the portfolio? We’ve got the technology, after all, and the institutional will to use it: I think the only opposition might come from those deeply invested in the write-on-demand philosophy, who might argue such an assignment would be too easy to prepare for ahead of time. But there is a sufficient diversity of things students can say about their own writing, I think, that it would be sufficiently easy to vary the prompt from year to year in ways that might still sufficiently foreground the importance of revision and reflection on one’s own writerly practices. [...] [...] But OK: before the boasting, I was talking about final exams. And here’s what I’m thinking, especially given Bradley’s recent comment: if my institution, bound in tradition as it is, won’t let go of the final exam requirement, and if the writer’s retrospective essay might fly as a substitute for what we’ve got in place now, wouldn’t that be a strong argument as well for moving to wholly electronic portfolios, with the final exam writer’s retrospective serving as a sort of rhetorical cover sheet for the portfolio? We’ve got the technology, after all, and the institutional will to use it: I think the only opposition might come from those deeply invested in the write-on-demand philosophy, who might argue such an assignment would be too easy to prepare for ahead of time. But there is a sufficient diversity of things students can say about their own writing, I think, that it would be sufficiently easy to vary the prompt from year to year in ways that might still sufficiently foreground the importance of revision and reflection on one’s own writerly practices. [...]

]]> By: Daisy http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49215 Daisy Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:42:44 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49215 I love it when cats do that "no paws" pose! I love it when cats do that “no paws” pose!

]]> By: bradley http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49144 bradley Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:11:30 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49144 My god, that's over 150 each (3384/22=153+). That's insane. I'd sure hate to have mine read near the end. We have about the same number of faculty reading about 600 student portfolios, three essays each, and that's brutal when stretched over two work days. On a related note, we're looking at an ePortfolio system from Chalk and Wire (chalkandwire.com) that would make something like this more manageable, if such can be the case. My god, that’s over 150 each (3384/22=153+). That’s insane. I’d sure hate to have mine read near the end. We have about the same number of faculty reading about 600 student portfolios, three essays each, and that’s brutal when stretched over two work days.

On a related note, we’re looking at an ePortfolio system from Chalk and Wire (chalkandwire.com) that would make something like this more manageable, if such can be the case.

]]> By: joanna http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49135 joanna Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:26:01 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49135 i second that ugh. But I'd love to hear more about calibration and what you all do--it sounds like norming. How many papers are you each expected to read? i second that ugh. But I’d love to hear more about calibration and what you all do–it sounds like norming. How many papers are you each expected to read?

]]> By: Michelle http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49099 Michelle Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:52:11 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49099 Ugghh. Painful. Ugghh. Painful.

]]> By: mike http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49064 mike Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:26:09 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49064 Tink's looking a good bit more blissful than I'll be looking tomorrow after grading calibration, when 21 of my colleagues and I receive 3384 electronically submitted cadet papers, each needing to be read and graded within about 24 hours. The eyes, they will bleed. Tink’s looking a good bit more blissful than I’ll be looking tomorrow after grading calibration, when 21 of my colleagues and I receive 3384 electronically submitted cadet papers, each needing to be read and graded within about 24 hours.

The eyes, they will bleed.

]]> By: joanna http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49036 joanna Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:12:12 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-49036 I wish I looked that inspired and blissful when grading papers. I wish I looked that inspired and blissful when grading papers.

]]> By: spencer http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-48980 spencer Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:31:03 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-48980 so cute!!! so cute!!!

]]> By: bradley http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-48915 bradley Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:58:41 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/12/10/my-assistant-grader/#comment-48915 I have five assistants of that sort, but only three who are willing to let me share the desk with them. They especially like it when I have a fire going in the wood-burning stove. I have five assistants of that sort, but only three who are willing to let me share the desk with them. They especially like it when I have a fire going in the wood-burning stove.

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